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Job 33:18–27

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He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.
He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
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From verse 18

  1. Job 33:28Rank 1 from verse 18
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    28He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

  2. Job 33:30Rank 2 from verse 18
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    30To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

  3. 2 Peter 3:9Rank 3 from verse 18
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    9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

  4. Romans 2:4Rank 4 from verse 18
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    4Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

  5. Job 15:22Rank 5 from verse 18
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    22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

From verse 19

  1. Job 30:17Rank 1 from verse 19
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    17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

  2. Job 5:17–18Rank 2 from verse 19
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    17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

    18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

  3. 1 Corinthians 11:32Rank 3 from verse 19
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    32But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

  4. Psalms 119:71Rank 4 from verse 19
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    71It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

  5. Psalms 94:12Rank 5 from verse 19
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    12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;

From verse 20

  1. Job 3:24Rank 1 from verse 20
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    24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

  2. Psalms 107:17–18Rank 2 from verse 20
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    17Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

    18Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

  3. Amos 5:11Rank 3 from verse 20
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    11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

  4. Genesis 3:6Rank 4 from verse 20
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    6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

  5. Jeremiah 3:19Rank 5 from verse 20
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    19But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

From verse 21

  1. Job 19:20Rank 1 from verse 21
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    20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

  2. Job 13:28Rank 2 from verse 21
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    28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

  3. Job 7:5Rank 3 from verse 21
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    5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

  4. Proverbs 5:11Rank 4 from verse 21
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    11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

  5. Job 14:20Rank 5 from verse 21
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    20Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

From verse 22

  1. 2 Samuel 24:16Rank 1 from verse 22
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    16And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

  2. Job 33:28Rank 2 from verse 22
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    28He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

  3. 1 Corinthians 10:10Rank 3 from verse 22
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    10Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

  4. 1 Samuel 2:6Rank 4 from verse 22
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    6The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

  5. Acts 12:23Rank 5 from verse 22
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    23And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

From verse 23

  1. Malachi 3:1Rank 1 from verse 23
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    1BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.

  2. 2 Corinthians 5:20Rank 2 from verse 23
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    20Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

  3. Ecclesiastes 7:28Rank 3 from verse 23
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    28Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

  4. Haggai 1:13Rank 4 from verse 23
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    13Then spake Haggai the Lord’s messenger in the Lord’s message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the Lord.

  5. Malachi 2:7Rank 5 from verse 23
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    7For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

From verse 24

  1. Psalms 49:7–8Rank 1 from verse 24
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    7None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

    8(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)

  2. 1 Peter 1:18–19Rank 2 from verse 24
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    18Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

    19But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

  3. Job 33:18Rank 3 from verse 24
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    18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

  4. Matthew 20:28Rank 4 from verse 24
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    28Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

  5. 1 Timothy 2:6Rank 5 from verse 24
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    6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

From verse 25

  1. Psalms 103:5Rank 1 from verse 25
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    5Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

  2. 2 Kings 5:14Rank 2 from verse 25
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    14Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

  3. Joshua 14:10–11Rank 3 from verse 25
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    10And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

    11As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.

  4. Deuteronomy 34:7Rank 4 from verse 25
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    7¶ And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

  5. Job 42:16Rank 5 from verse 25
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    16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

From verse 26

  1. Psalms 50:15Rank 1 from verse 26
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    15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

  2. Psalms 30:5Rank 2 from verse 26
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    5For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

  3. Acts 2:28Rank 3 from verse 26
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    28Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

  4. Acts 9:11Rank 4 from verse 26
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    11And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,

  5. Isaiah 30:19Rank 5 from verse 26
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    19For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

From verse 27

  1. Romans 6:21Rank 1 from verse 27
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    21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

  2. 2 Samuel 12:13Rank 2 from verse 27
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    13And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.

  3. Psalms 14:2Rank 3 from verse 27
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    2The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

  4. 1 John 1:8–10Rank 4 from verse 27
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    8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

    9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

    10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

  5. Jeremiah 31:18–19Rank 5 from verse 27
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    18¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.

    19Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

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DEFINED WORDS

Job 33:18

COMBINED MEANING

back

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Sense 1: The rear part; a position or direction behind. Sense 2: A return to a former place or condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

soul

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Sense 1: A living person or creature; a life or self. Sense 2: The inward self distinguished from the body. Sense 3: The seat of desire or appetite.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

pit

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Sense 1: A hole, cavity, cistern, dungeon, trap, or place of confinement. Sense 2: The grave, deep ruin, or a place of judgment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Job 33:19

COMBINED MEANING

chastened

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of chasten, meaning to correct or discipline, often through reproof or suffering.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

pain

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Sense 1: Suffering, distress, or bodily torment. Sense 2: As a verb, to cause distress.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

bed

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Sense 1: A place for rest or sleep. Sense 2: The marriage bed or a place in which something lies. As a verb, to place or lie in a bed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

multitude

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1. A great number or large gathered body of persons, creatures, or forces; a crowd, company, or host. 2. A great number, amount, fullness, or abundance of years, words, deeds, mercies, sins, possessions, waters, or other stated things.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

strong

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Having great power, might, firmness, courage, capacity, influence, defence, health, intensity, or ability to act, endure, resist, overcome, or support.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Job 33:20

COMBINED MEANING

soul

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Sense 1: A living person or creature; a life or self. Sense 2: The inward self distinguished from the body. Sense 3: The seat of desire or appetite.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

meat

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Sense 1: Food, nourishment, sustenance, or provision. Sense 2: Figuratively, that which nourishes or sustains.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Job 33:21

COMBINED MEANING

flesh

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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

consumed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of consume. Sense 1: To destroy, use up, or bring to an end. Sense 2: To waste away or be exhausted.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

stick

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Sense 1: As a noun, a cut branch, rod, or slender piece of wood. Sense 2: As a verb, to adhere, remain fast, project, or be fixed in or upon something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Job 33:22

COMBINED MEANING

yea

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1. Indeed, marking confirmation, emphasis, addition, continuation, or heightening of what is said; it may also emphasize a question. 2. Yes, expressing an affirmative answer or declaration.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

soul

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Sense 1: A living person or creature; a life or self. Sense 2: The inward self distinguished from the body. Sense 3: The seat of desire or appetite.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

grave

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Sense 1: The place of the dead or of burial; a tomb, burial place, or pit. Sense 2: To cut, carve, or engrave. Sense 3: As an adjective, serious, sober, dignified, or worthy of respect.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Job 33:23

COMBINED MEANING

shew

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Sense 1: To cause to see; to display, present, point out, or make visible. Sense 2: To reveal, disclose, declare, explain, teach, direct, or make known. Sense 3: To demonstrate, prove, manifest, or make evident. Sense 4: To exercise or perform kindness, mercy, favour, piety, or another stated disposition toward someone. Sense 5: An outward appearance, display, or presentation to view.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

uprightness

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Honesty and integrity in principle or practice; conformity to rectitude and justice.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Job 33:24

COMBINED MEANING

gracious

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Showing favour, mercy, compassion, kindness, patience, or goodness; pleasant, acceptable, or benevolent in word or action.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

deliver

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Sense 1: To rescue, save, free, or bring safely out of danger or bondage. Sense 2: To hand over, give up, or place into another's power or possession. Sense 3: To bring forth, convey, declare, or commit something to another. Sense 4: To give birth or be delivered of a child.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

pit

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Sense 1: A hole, cavity, cistern, dungeon, trap, or place of confinement. Sense 2: The grave, deep ruin, or a place of judgment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ransom

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Sense 1: A price or payment for release or deliverance. Sense 2: As a verb, to redeem, rescue, or deliver.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Job 33:25

COMBINED MEANING

flesh

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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

child

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1. A son or daughter; an offspring or descendant. 2. A young person or infant, considered by age or development. 3. In 'with child,' pregnant or carrying an unborn child. 4. One described as belonging to, derived from, characterized by, or dependent upon another person, group, or condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

return

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Sense 1: To go, come, send, or give back; to restore, answer, or turn again. Sense 2: The act or time of coming back or recurring.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

youth

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Sense 1: The period of life following childhood and preceding mature age. Sense 2: A young person or young people.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Job 33:26

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

pray

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Sense 1: To ask, beseech, request, or entreat. Sense 2: To make requests or supplications to God, or address him in worship.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

see

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Sense 1: To perceive or behold with the eyes or in a vision. Sense 2: To observe, examine, discover, ascertain, consider, understand, know, or recognize. Sense 3: To visit, meet, converse with, or be in the presence of. Sense 4: To experience, undergo, endure, or enjoy. Sense 5: To attend to, take care, ensure, or beware.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

face

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The front of the head and its countenance or expression; the front, surface, outward appearance, presence, view, or personally known identity of a person, place, or thing.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

joy

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Sense 1: Gladness, delight, or rejoicing. Sense 2: To rejoice, delight, or be glad.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

render

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To give, deliver, present, offer, return, repay, yield, perform, or award what is due, required, produced, deserved, or entrusted.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Job 33:27

COMBINED MEANING

looketh

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Third-person singular present form of look, meaning to direct the eyes or attention; to behold, observe, expect, or take heed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

say

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Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

perverted

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Turned from right to wrong; distorted; corrupted; misinterpreted; misemployed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

right

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1. Correct, just, upright, proper, lawful, fitting, true, or due; also a rightful claim or authority. 2. The direction or side opposite the left. 3. Straight, favourable, skilful, or approved. 4. Very, quite, or fully.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

profited

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of profit, meaning to benefit, improve, or advance.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

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19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:

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20So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

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21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

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22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

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23If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:

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24Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

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25His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:

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26He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

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27He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

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28He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

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